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The Overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty
The dynasty was overthrown in a revolution known as the Double Tenth and a republic was created. -
Causes of Chinese Civil War
This event was an important cause because it was a movement dedicated to the change and rebirth of China as a proud and independent nation, it had a revolutionary ideology due that one of the main causes of China's problems was the Imperialism. -
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Set Up
This was also an important cause because of this membership being mainly of intellectual people so they didn't have a military strength, so they decided to work hand to hand with the GMD and cooperate with the nationalists by the USSR. -
The First United Front
The GMD and the CCP wanted to unify China, so they agreed they needed to be free of foreign imperialists powers. Jiang was anti-communist so he started removing communists from key positions in the party breaking off the alliance. -
Northern Expedition
This was an important case because both parties crushed the warlords of central and northern China ending the first of the three principles. -
Jiangxi Soviet
The CCP was forced to run into Jiangxi province to survive -
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Purification Movements
It was the massacre of thousands of communists, trade unionists and peasants leaders. The CCP was nearly crushed -
White Terror
It was a violent suppression against the communists in China by the military forces of Jiang Kai-Shek, forcing communists to scape from China -
GMD becomes the legitimate government of China
Now that the alliance was not necessary, Jiang decided to no longer tolerate communists to unify China -
Jiang take out Communists from the GMD
Communists promised land to the peasants, so they can have their support, so their popular support was not well received by Jiang
